Creative Writing: Chewed Gum Belongs In The Trash

Gum ruins people’s clothing. If you have ever sat in gum, you know you do not want to have that experience again.

“Some people say I was lucky to survive, other will say I deserved it for the choice I made. I’m here to say I was lucky, it’s never ok to say your life isn’t worth living even at your worst you can always look forward tomorrow will come and if you put your mind to it you’ll see that anything is possible.” – Stephen McGregor Professional Paralympian

Most people believe that the process of chewing gum can be distracting not only to the chewer, but to the surrounding persons.

A teacher once told me, “One mans trash is another mans treasure, what he doesn’t appreciate the next man will.” Until recently analyzing this statement I always pondered about it as a metaphor using the thoughts, and ideas of people, but after reading Garbology I have come up with a literal process of reusing trash. On average Americans wastes 220 million tons of waste generated each year in the United States which ends up in one of the over 3,500 landfills. According to Edward Humes, the author of Garbology, “Garbage has become one the most accurate measures of prosperity in the twenty-first-century America and the world,” which proves that trash is a means to improving the success rate of Americans. This reminds me of the words of Confucius who stated, “When a goal cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goal, adjust the action step” because with the knowledge from garbology we can

Many individuals are accustomed to waste at least a portion of what they buy, whether it is food, clothes, furniture, supplies, or materials worldwide. According to the article: “On Dumpster Diving” many valuable items were found by the homeless who searched the dumpster for food. Surprisingly, they found useful items that helped them survive throughout each day. In fact, the products were worth for the exchange of money. At certain times, I myself may be considered to be a wasteful person during certain times such as, not finishing my drink and throwing more than half of it away. While rushing at work during break, this is a usual situation for many people Although, it isn't necessarily on purpose it is considered wasteful, valuable and influence advertising.

Gum has been around for hundreds of years, even the Ancient Greeks had a substance similar to gum to chew on. Unlike ancient times, when gum was harvested from a type of plant, in the early 1900’s the synthetic gum we now know exploded into America. Since then gum has grown to become an imbedded part of American culture. You can buy gum practically anywhere that has a local gas station or supermarket. Gum has health benefits like oral hygiene and appetite suppressant, not to mentions countless delicious flavors and competing companies. Two of the largest companies, William Wrigley Company, creator of 5 Gum, and Stride another widely known company, gross hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. With so many options to gum chewers in the nation

My first reason as to why we should be allowed to chew gum is because it can help certain people focus better. The more focused you are the more accurate and aware you are. Chewing gum also makes you answer questions far more quickly correctly. Finally, if you chew gum than you can focus longer meaning that you could take in more information. I usually have a hard time focusing so even if these

When the gum hit the stores last year I was thrilled to try and get some, however I was only able to about a month later. One of my biggest track and field idles uses the gum and that’s not surprising since he made it. It makes since to have the gum, but keeping the boxes makes me a hoarder. I do use the boxes when I need to store stuff but looks really weird to have to go to a box of gum to get a paper clip or a pencil. I really don’t have any reason to keep boxes but for some reason instead of getting rid of them it looks like I collect them and really don’t want to make it look like that, but until I do toss them I will continue to use them for paper clip

But as stated in (custodians at work)By Mia Lopez-Zubiri custodians spend many hours trying to scrape gum off the bottom of desks, chairs, floors, etc. As a result this can be very time consuming and more than likely slow down the custodians working process. Critics have a valid point about why this is so bad to our school environment. However we can organize special rules that if you are caught putting gum in desks on floors etc. you will face a severe consequence therefore making the littering problem

SMACK! SMACK! POP! The teacher quietly pulls me out in the hall and ask if I have gum I sadly say yes, and I have to throw it away. I am going to try to make people able to chew bubble gum in class. What is really wrong with gum it’s not bad . People in our middle school or even elementary have probably been written up millions of times or have been told to throw it away a million times because they were chewing bubble gum. Bubble gum isn’t a crime so why should people have to throw away their store bought bubble gum that cost money. I think people should be able to chew bubble gum during class to take things out of you head that you don’t need to think about .

Sherwood schools decided that students don’t have the right to chew gum. Thinking that the substance will cause a sticky mess and popping will cause a distraction, Sherwood banned chewing it. Chewing gum is helpful in many different ways. However, it can also be harmful to the people having to listen to the dreadful sound of the popping of your gum, while they are trying to work on their classroom assignments. Students with ADD and ADHD sometimes require to chew gum to actually get them to learn. Limiting gum is limiting their ability to take in new information, and isn’t that what the school is trying to do, teach students new things? While gum helps some people focus and learn, it can become a major distraction for others. There are multiple reasons why Sherwood attendees think that gum is acceptable or unacceptable

Gum, a tasty treat to chew on, but this treat can result in affecting your health. Studies defined that chewing gum can cause a person’s jaw to be used to temporomandibular joint disorder. The nasty treat that people touch or see can make them disgusted, chewing gum makes public, or private places unsanitary. In addition, chewing gum in experiments didn’t really help students to regain memory. Chewing gum should be prohibited in Middle schools, for students wellness, and health.

I have noticed that there is a knothole in front of my house, where Jem and Scout pass by every day after school. I figured that I should put some objects in there, I thought it was a smart idea to try and interact with them and plus it was a good deed I could do. I scavenged around the house trying to find anything that I could put into that knothole, most of the things were either creepy or too old and dirty so I figured that it was not a bright thing to put any of those objects in there. A flash of light just came to me, I remembered that my brother gave me a packet of chewing gum and I had two left, I was contemplating if I should eat it or give it to the kids. I decided to be nice and place it inside the knot-hole for them to consume although

It's chewy but you wouldn't throw it away so you force it down but then realize the price

People tossing out trash means that they don’t care what happens to it as long as it’s out of their car or house. People should think of the impact they can cause the environment if they recycle properly, reusing water bottles, and when they go grocery shopping bring a reusable bags that won’t be thrown out into streams and lakes that will cause pollution to the environment. If someone throws garbage where it shouldn’t belong then throw it out for them to keep the environment clean.